How to Buy Eyepiece for Telescope

Video Transcript

"One of the most important things about choosing it, about choosing your eye pieces is to know about the designs. With more, most of your low cost telescopes, they'll come with an eyepiece called a Huygen. It's a two element. Again the thing to look for here is that the optics are not plastic. They literally make this eyepiece by squirting a little bit of plastic in a mold, as soon as it hardens, they pop it out and actually break off the little edges, put two pieces in and they're done. It doesn't take much more money to go to a glass. This is literally a blank of glass that was polished to a very exacting figure and you'll, make enjoying your telescope go up tremendously. I like the Kellners if you're going to get a first range eyepiece. I would get the Kellners or the Plossl. They'll have polished glass. Look for a dark coating again on there that you can use. The reason I say this, I have a friend who goes to the junkyard about once every two weeks and there's a discarded telescope. Most of your telescopes will end up in the junkyard because the optics were fine in the telescope, but the eyepieces were plastic and you can't seat them, they'll be bright halos around all of your optics, your images will be fuzzy, they'll never be sharp. So we refurbish those and actually give those to individuals. So when you're looking for an eyepiece, glass is king. Look for that, look for the Kellner, look for the Plossl design and the enjoyment, you'll enjoy your telescope. You will use it, it won't end up in the attic. Okay, it won't end up at the dump because of something that's wrong. Usually the lenses are good, this is the weak link with the eyepieces. I can't tell you how much more important and how much more you'll enjoy your telescope with some eyepieces. And for as little investment as about twenty dollars, you'll be able to have some premium eyepieces, you can enjoy the telescope. For hundreds of years all we had was simple design eyepieces, glass, and they worked very well."